I'm pretty sure they all have partially functional keyboards. I really need to tear one down (*carefully*) and see what I would need to do to fix them. I got four SX-64s when the place I worked finally scrapped them out from the lab where they were used for actual lab testing computers.
The original commie keyboards really, really sucked, so that part is good. I sure wish there was an updated SX-64 keyboard because I have 4 SX-64s that could all use one.
But really, how many Amiga guts are out there to house in these new cases? Will this make all-original Amigas that still run really really valuable to collectors over time?
Well, Android proved that Linux doesn't belong to the unix community. The good thing is, the unix community has never suffered from being a small subset of the entire computer-using public. And hey, then. This is a BSD topic so the fate of linux isn't central anyway. Personally I quit using linux and switched to NetBSD for my unix-like needs because of Red Hat 5.0 and the mess that was PCMCIA ethernet support at the time (a clown in a sidecar, when NetBSD had the drivers right in the kernel), and haven't looked back.
NetBSD has twm, and that's all that's needed, though an upgrade to fvwm2 is kinda nice. twm is a binary that you get automatically in the base install, from the 406MB iso if you're on an x86 platform.
Which is all well documented in the O'Reilly X11 manual set. (The User's Guide is Vol. 3, the Administrator Guide is Vol. 8)
you can't just shut down everything every time you run into a bug and keep it down until you've fixed it.
Yikes.
Actually, you can bring it up again reliably until you've fixed the bug. I suppose you can have processes that keep pounding away at the system to try to force things to work, until the whole thing crashes. Or just nibbles away at resources until every part of the system is nerfed.
I've installed NetBSD more often over the serial console than with a monitor. Old Sparc hardware usually doesn't show up in my life with a monitor or keyboard.
I suspect there's probably a way to install it headless on Pee Cees, too.
Furthermore, it would be a good exercise for the whole GPS system to go offline ever once in awhile, maybe once a month, to keep people alert. It would be an excellent thing for navigation as a whole, particularly civillian navigation, to be forced to not be entirely dependent on those birds in the sky. I used computer mapping to get around long before I got a GPS unit. Back when GPS was much more expensive than now, there were plenty of resources to have map/trip software on your PC. Perhaps if everybody didn't rely on GPS all the time for everything, location beaconing systems would be put into place.
I can't imagine the mess that 'self driving cars' could turn into if they're entirely dependent on GPS for navigation.
Journalists should anger all political entities with their coverage. That's kinda part of their job, because the truth will always disturb any politician.
You'd want to only do it in situations like country roads at night. No other traffic on the road, and the police can pull the bodies out of the wreckage in daylight the next morning. We live on a 45 mph county highway and when the rednecks are out whizzing past at 80 mph at 3 AM is when something that dramatically 'stops' them would be useful.
Bluetooth has rendered details like that irrelevant in the accessories market. There's really no reason why you should have to sacrifice the charging jack to plug a controller into.
Only the cheapest 'dumb' controllers wouldn't have enough smarts to include a bluetooth interface.
If you had been around during the time when Reagan was president, you would know that there was always, at any time Reagan was in public, somebody there with a microphone hoping to catch him saying something they could characterize as a 'gaffe'. Usually there were multiple people hanging around hoping for that.
I'm not a huge Trump fan, but if he does win it'll be amusing to watch all the people with pee dribbing down their pantsleg sputter and fume and latch onto anything 'dumb' that a microphone can capture him as having said.
Jefferson is well know to have grown hemp. That's known in marijuana smoking circles as 'ditch weed' and it isn't very psychoactive. Said hemp had uuses for making rope and it was also used for paper making. The very founding documents of the US were printed on hemp-based paper.
Jefferson's hemp crop wouldn't have created a hallucinogenic daze if they'd been smoked.
I don't want to pay for a console to get my 3DS. And what I want should count, now that we're a two person household that has bought two 3DS XLs and two 'new' 3DS XLs. Haven't bought a WII U because that's too much $$ for a single piece of gaming hardware.
Touch only input still sucks really bad for most forms of game controlling. Rubbing you hand around on a flat surface of glass doesn't work. A requirement like that would be a deathwish. Now, Nintendo could come up with their own proprietary game controller, perhaps one over bluetooth, that would be the 'dongle' for playing their games on many game and video platforms.
The one thing that sucks the most in mobile gaming is the controller. Nintendo could hijack everybody else's display and CPU and have a winning platform.
I bought a used Kindle Keyboard 3G for about $40 at a HalfPrice Books. That's the one with e-ink and the free 3G cellular connection.
Basically, if I were to become homeless it is a free cellular Internet connection forever, though the 'experimental' web browser has never been updated and is VERY rudimentary.
If Algore had won, that first foreign policy crisis, when the US reconnaisance plane was forced to land and then looted by the Chinese, would have resulted in Algore ordering the Pentagon to give all the blueprints and plans for the plane and its equipment to China (this incident occurred before 9/11)
When 9/11 then occurred a little while later, algore would have went on an apology tour to the middle east.
We wouldn't now be buying Chinese made goods at Walmart now, the retailers would be Chinese themselves.
I have seen what they install. It's obnoxious, but not general 'advertising' as most peopLe think of it. They install icons on your start menu for programs you haven't installed. When you touch them (this is on my Windows 10 tablet) the shortcut takes you to the app store to install it. Hardware vendors have been putting shovelware links on their OS prebuilds for years that is the equivalent. The difference is that Microsoft is adding these 'ad' shortcuts in after you've already been using the system. I've deleted the ones that have appeared so far. Hopefully it won't be a continuing thing. It's annoying to find crap in the start menu that you haven't installed.
True, but we are talking about defrauding Apple, not just any company. That's the equivalent of trash talking Scientology on a forum their zeolots frequent. It's pretty likely some martinet Apple follower has made a note.
My locak Radio Shack has been conducting a clearance sale. The whole front end of the store now only sells Sprint phones and Virgin Mobile, who are a Sprint derivative.
But there's still a whole back half of the store that is Radio Shack. Some of the stuff back there is clearance priced, as they're resorting the inventory. But there are still electronics tools, the big cabinet with drawers full of parts, and some of the Adruino and kit stuff isn't clearance priced. There's still a market for electronics hobby stuff here. It might suck more in other areas of the country, I suppose.
It is really sad that we all are so much looking after our Radio Shacks which a decade ago many of us worked at actively scorning. Digi-Key delivers really fast, and have since before 'the Web' took the market over. Maybe some of it is nostalgia, looking back at the time when you'd drop into the Radio Shack just to browse and maybe get the inspiration for that next project. That part of it is gone.
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I'm pretty sure they all have partially functional keyboards. I really need to tear one down (*carefully*) and see what I would need to do to fix them. I got four SX-64s when the place I worked finally scrapped them out from the lab where they were used for actual lab testing computers.
The original commie keyboards really, really sucked, so that part is good. I sure wish there was an updated SX-64 keyboard because I have 4 SX-64s that could all use one.
But really, how many Amiga guts are out there to house in these new cases? Will this make all-original Amigas that still run really really valuable to collectors over time?
Well, Android proved that Linux doesn't belong to the unix community. The good thing is, the unix community has never suffered from being a small subset of the entire computer-using public. And hey, then. This is a BSD topic so the fate of linux isn't central anyway. Personally I quit using linux and switched to NetBSD for my unix-like needs because of Red Hat 5.0 and the mess that was PCMCIA ethernet support at the time (a clown in a sidecar, when NetBSD had the drivers right in the kernel), and haven't looked back.
NetBSD has twm, and that's all that's needed, though an upgrade to fvwm2 is kinda nice. twm is a binary that you get automatically in the base install, from the 406MB iso if you're on an x86 platform.
Which is all well documented in the O'Reilly X11 manual set. (The User's Guide is Vol. 3, the Administrator Guide is Vol. 8)
you can't just shut down everything every time you run into a bug and keep it down until you've fixed it.
Yikes.
Actually, you can bring it up again reliably until you've fixed the bug. I suppose you can have processes that keep pounding away at the system to try to force things to work, until the whole thing crashes. Or just nibbles away at resources until every part of the system is nerfed.
I've installed NetBSD more often over the serial console than with a monitor. Old Sparc hardware usually doesn't show up in my life with a monitor or keyboard.
I suspect there's probably a way to install it headless on Pee Cees, too.
Furthermore, it would be a good exercise for the whole GPS system to go offline ever once in awhile, maybe once a month, to keep people alert. It would be an excellent thing for navigation as a whole, particularly civillian navigation, to be forced to not be entirely dependent on those birds in the sky. I used computer mapping to get around long before I got a GPS unit. Back when GPS was much more expensive than now, there were plenty of resources to have map/trip software on your PC. Perhaps if everybody didn't rely on GPS all the time for everything, location beaconing systems would be put into place.
I can't imagine the mess that 'self driving cars' could turn into if they're entirely dependent on GPS for navigation.
Journalists should anger all political entities with their coverage. That's kinda part of their job, because the truth will always disturb any politician.
Right. Google can spy on your activity on all those platforms, and they do. Microsoft is stuck with Windows and Windows Mobile.
You'd want to only do it in situations like country roads at night. No other traffic on the road, and the police can pull the bodies out of the wreckage in daylight the next morning. We live on a 45 mph county highway and when the rednecks are out whizzing past at 80 mph at 3 AM is when something that dramatically 'stops' them would be useful.
Bluetooth has rendered details like that irrelevant in the accessories market. There's really no reason why you should have to sacrifice the charging jack to plug a controller into.
Only the cheapest 'dumb' controllers wouldn't have enough smarts to include a bluetooth interface.
If you had been around during the time when Reagan was president, you would know that there was always, at any time Reagan was in public, somebody there with a microphone hoping to catch him saying something they could characterize as a 'gaffe'. Usually there were multiple people hanging around hoping for that.
I'm not a huge Trump fan, but if he does win it'll be amusing to watch all the people with pee dribbing down their pantsleg sputter and fume and latch onto anything 'dumb' that a microphone can capture him as having said.
Jefferson is well know to have grown hemp. That's known in marijuana smoking circles as 'ditch weed' and it isn't very psychoactive. Said hemp had uuses for making rope and it was also used for paper making. The very founding documents of the US were printed on hemp-based paper.
Jefferson's hemp crop wouldn't have created a hallucinogenic daze if they'd been smoked.
No, you're a troll for posting obnoxious opinions and then reveling in the response you get.
A gram is better than a damn.
I don't want to pay for a console to get my 3DS. And what I want should count, now that we're a two person household that has bought two 3DS XLs and two 'new' 3DS XLs. Haven't bought a WII U because that's too much $$ for a single piece of gaming hardware.
Touch only input still sucks really bad for most forms of game controlling. Rubbing you hand around on a flat surface of glass doesn't work. A requirement like that would be a deathwish.
Now, Nintendo could come up with their own proprietary game controller, perhaps one over bluetooth, that would be the 'dongle' for playing their games on many game and video platforms.
The one thing that sucks the most in mobile gaming is the controller. Nintendo could hijack everybody else's display and CPU and have a winning platform.
I bought a used Kindle Keyboard 3G for about $40 at a HalfPrice Books. That's the one with e-ink and the free 3G cellular connection.
Basically, if I were to become homeless it is a free cellular Internet connection forever, though the 'experimental' web browser has never been updated and is VERY rudimentary.
If Algore had won, that first foreign policy crisis, when the US reconnaisance plane was forced to land and then looted by the Chinese, would have resulted in Algore ordering the Pentagon to give all the blueprints and plans for the plane and its equipment to China (this incident occurred before 9/11)
When 9/11 then occurred a little while later, algore would have went on an apology tour to the middle east.
We wouldn't now be buying Chinese made goods at Walmart now, the retailers would be Chinese themselves.
The hard core are still using CyberDog!
I'm not that big a fan of sports fishing to want to live in Thief River Falls.
I have seen what they install. It's obnoxious, but not general 'advertising' as most peopLe think of it. They install icons on your start menu for programs you haven't installed. When you touch them (this is on my Windows 10 tablet) the shortcut takes you to the app store to install it. Hardware vendors have been putting shovelware links on their OS prebuilds for years that is the equivalent. The difference is that Microsoft is adding these 'ad' shortcuts in after you've already been using the system. I've deleted the ones that have appeared so far. Hopefully it won't be a continuing thing. It's annoying to find crap in the start menu that you haven't installed.
True, but we are talking about defrauding Apple, not just any company. That's the equivalent of trash talking Scientology on a forum their zeolots frequent. It's pretty likely some martinet Apple follower has made a note.
I use pop.gmail.com exclusively. Is there still a web interface to gmail? I wouldn't know.
My locak Radio Shack has been conducting a clearance sale. The whole front end of the store now only sells Sprint phones and Virgin Mobile, who are a Sprint derivative.
But there's still a whole back half of the store that is Radio Shack. Some of the stuff back there is clearance priced, as they're resorting the inventory. But there are still electronics tools, the big cabinet with drawers full of parts, and some of the Adruino and kit stuff isn't clearance priced. There's still a market for electronics hobby stuff here. It might suck more in other areas of the country, I suppose.
It is really sad that we all are so much looking after our Radio Shacks which a decade ago many of us worked at actively scorning. Digi-Key delivers really fast, and have since before 'the Web' took the market over. Maybe some of it is nostalgia, looking back at the time when you'd drop into the Radio Shack just to browse and maybe get the inspiration for that next project. That part of it is gone.